illusion

The conventional wisdom seems to be that Palin’s pick was affirmative action in action, a transparent ploy to play for Clinton’s voters. I don’t think it’s so simple.

I love Krugman’s columns, partly because I generally agree with him, and partly becasue from time to time, he reminds me that life is cyclic. Today he finds a disturbing cyclic pattern, that we call globalization.

I've heard JJ Jones and others mention lately the need for a new downtown jail because currently when someone is arrested they are first taken out to the Maloneyville facility to be processed and then brought back downtown.

“If God does not exist, and if religion is an illusion that the majority of men cannot live without…let men believe in the lies of religion since they cannot do without them, and let then a handful of sages, who know the truth and can live with it, keep it among themselves.

Enjoy this glimpse of downtown's “newest and finest restaurant,” Pearl Fusion Restro, located at the corner of Commerce and Second.

The University of Tennessee Ewing Gallery will host 3 MFA thesis exhibitions from April 18-24, 2008. On view will be works by the following Master of Fine Arts candidates:

In reference to a discussion of the ability of decentralism (aka conservative/libertarian anti-federalism) to secure individual rights, versus the ability of a centralized liberalism to do the same, commenter Adam Victor Reed writes:

Tonya Thompson explains her affinity for Barack Obama: